(Üntíaxir fóriro?VOLUME IV

S U C C E S S O R T O T H E W E S T E R N O R E G O N

COTTAGE GROVE. OREGON. FRIDAY. OCT. 15. ¡909

If CHRIST WERE HEREInteresting Discourse by Rev.

Robt. Sutcliffe. ia Will Make Good.

S A V I OR W O U L D B E S P I R I T U A L

If Christ Were in Cottage Grove T o ­day He Would be Patriotic, Distin­guishing That Quality From Partyism. Comparisons Are Made.

“ What would Jesus be in Cottage Grove in 1909?” This question was most interestingly anil logically discuss­ed before a large and appreciative con­gregation by the Rev. Robert Sut­cliffe, pastor o f the Methodist church, Sunday evening. He took for his text Heb. 13:8, “ Jesus Christ the same yes­terday, today and forever,” and from these words introduced the subject of his discourse, a synopsis o f which fo l­lows :

Doubtless many have asked the ques­tion, how does anyone know what Jesus would be or do in Cottage Grove in 1909? for the West has exchanged places with the East; the electric light has supplanted the floating w ick ; we ride in Pullman cars instead o f on cam­els’ backs. That may all be true, but right and wrong, justice and injustice, falsehood and truth are still the same. When we find out in the gospels what Jesus was and did we may confidently assert that He would be the same and do the same in the midst o f our modern complex o f civilization. I f Jesus lived in Cottage Grove He would be spirit­ual. Men have always substituted other things for this requirement, such as orthodoxy, respectability and relig- onism. Spirituality means more than wearing an odd dress or using peculiar phrases. Here is a good definition of this quality o f the life. Spiritualism is to be controlled and inspired by the Holy Spirit. This Jesus was in a won­drous manner. He o f all men could say, “ he that hath seen me hath seen the Father.”

When Dewey went into Manila bay ae cut all cables, thus detaching him- ie lf from the rest of the world. We, Timcvei, must always see to it that ve are in touch and communication vith God, as the Master was. I f Jesus Christ lived in Cottage Grove he would •e industrious. Every Jewish boy vent to school at the age o f five or six, here to be taught the rudiments of nowledge, and especially the history f his country. Then at twelve he is

taught a trade. Christ followed the same trade as that o f his father, a carpenter. A darkey who had turned preacher, in a little while began to place the letters D. D. after his name. One o f his friends inquired what they stood for and received the reply, dar­key do-nothing. When Jesus began to preach his days were crowded with labors. God never calls a wood-whit- tler or cracker-box sitting man into his employ. David was keeping sheep when appointed king; Elisha was ploughing with many yokes o f oxen when called to be Elijah’s successor.1 When Cecil Rhodes lay dying he kept murmuring “ so much to do, so little done.” Let us do with our might what our hands find to do, for the night cometh when no man can work. I f Jesus lived in Cottage Grove he would be patriotic. The Jew was the Swiss o f his day. He loved his country with an overpowering affection. To know how much one only needs to read the 137th Psalm. You remember that when the Master caught sight o f Jerusalem upon one occasion instead o f cheering He wept as he saw the overthrow of the city, the pride o f the old earth, i f Jesus lived in our midst He would be patriotic enough to doff His hat when

less and powerless, while the man of I Galilee is the most potent personality in all the world at the present time.Why this difference? One founded hisempire upon violence brutality and |y)r< L j,|y Confident that Bolieill-bloodshed, while the other established His kingdom upon kindness and broth­erliness. The Nazarene has been well termed everybody’s friend.

Shame upon us who cull ourselves His followers “ if we live for ourselves, think for ourselves and none besides, just as if Jesus hud never lived, as if He had never died.” Shall we not all go from this service tonight resolved to look upon and treat those we meet this coming week as if they belonged, as well as ourselves, to the great fam­ily circle over which God presides as father. Then men will think more of our professions and our religion.

S H O U L D B E E N F O R C E D .Law Provides That Truant Officers be

Employed by School Boards.The state compulsory education law

should be strictly enforced in Cottage Grove, as well as in every other local­ity in Oregon. The law was enacted for a purpose and that purpose, The Sentinel believes, should be attained.

it provides that all children between and including the ages o f nine and fourteen years, and all children be­tween the ages of fourteen and sixteen years not regularly engaged in some useful employment, must attend school each year as long as school is taught in the district in which the parent or guardian lives. The children taught in the school or its branches at home or in private school or by a private tutor, such instructions to be equivalent to that given in the public schools. Chil­dren that can prove by an examination that they have mastered the common school branches, such examinations to be given by the county eighth grade examining board. Children who are physically unable to attend school, a physician’s certificate being accepted as competent evidence. Children be­tween the ages o f 9 and 10 years who live more than one and a half miles from, and older children who live more than three miles from school by the nearest trav. 1 I road, au exempt:

The officer; law.

HAS FAITH IN THE CAMP NiW BLOOD IS NEEDEDImmigrants and New Railways

Will Make Tnis Country.

S T E A M B O A T P L A C E R M I N IN G SO S A Y S W I L L I A M E. CURTIS

jw provides furti er that truant. i,rs be employed to enforce tin- hundí gtoiis

Two Camps Have Been id OperationThere for About Three Years- Needo f a Smelter in Bohemia District IsGreatly Felt — Mining Notes.

Mr. E. E. L illy has great faith in the future o f the Bohemia mining dis- rict, where he has spent the greater part o f twelve years. In conversation with The Sentinel on Monday he de­clared his intention to make a “ stake” there regardless of what others inter­ested in the camp thought or did. He has more faith in the camp today than ever before, and emphatically declares that it w ill eventually make good. He has three claims adjoining the Oregon & Colorado, and while he has only done his assessment work on these this year he has excellent prospects, two veins showing good ore. Mr. Lilly expects that when fully developed this property will produce sufficient copper and ga­lena to pay ali running expenses, g iv­ing gold as a net profit. In addition to these claims Mr. Lilly and O. P. Adams have two claims adjoining the Ophir and Music mines. These proper­ties will be put in a somewhat develop­ed condition and disposed of. There are two tunnels aggregating 300 feet, and both base and a comparatively free ore, or an ore that will plate satisfac­torily. Still two other claims are held by Mr. Lilly and his son, E. A. Lilly, near the Mayflower, and known as the Galconda group. Here trails have been cut, a house built and 200 feet of tunneling done. A t present E. A .L illy is employed at the Music mine.

James W. Sears returned on Satur­day from Kenyonsville, Southern Ore­gon, where he has been employed in mining, and will go to Bohemia within a few days. He has four claims in the

I camp, upon winch about $6,oo0 worth ofHe

. i - - .IMPROVING H I^H vA y S

sa vin g

has many i t dump, as- •or <• n. tic.'

Comm sionei Combs h xpe1 ds $1600 for Road Betterments.

Mr. H. Clay Combs of London was in Cottage Grove last Saturday, and to a representative of The Sentinel said

I *j considerable work had been done on the Black butte road during the past season. He has served in the capacity

' o f highway commissioner o f that dis­trict, which extends from the corpor-

! ate limits o f Cottage Grove to Black Butte, and from London to the summit o f Mount Calapooia, for four years, during which time many important

j improvements have been made. About $1,500 will have been expended when the present season closes, $700 o f which

j has gone for the betterment o f the i highway near what is known as the | Grange hall. The grade at this place has been reduced, and river gravel spread over the surface for a distance o f a half mile. For this work there was a tax levy o f two mills. The road near London has also been improved with gravel, and considerable patch- work has been done just outside o f this city. The Shortridge hill w ill be grav­elled before work closes for the year.

Thanksgiving Masquerade.The Cottage Grove company of

National Guards will give a bal masque at the Armory on Thanksgiving Eve., arrangements for which will soon be making. The company, by previous custom, has undisputed right to the date, and contemplates making this terpsichorean event eclipse all previous

>een done.>f ore on

rom Ju,flours expresses Ih* opinion that il a smelter o f 50 tons capacity could be laui in camp it would be kept busy, and would assist very materially in tne de­velopment o f the mining industry at this place. He has had wide experi­ence as a miner, and unhesitatingly avers that the Bohemia district sur­passes that o f Butte, and is by far the best on the Pacific coast. It is impos­sible, however, to successfully treat the ore by any o f the processes now employed.

There is placer mining on Steamboat creek, nine miles southeast o f the Bo­hemia district, where two camps have been working continuously for about three years. The yield is not great, yet is sufficient to remunerate the miners who are thus engaged. Miners in the Bohemia camp are not familiar with the results being attained, but one tells The Sentinel that on a visit to the placer camps he found that $3li had been panned in six days. The work being carried on is in Douglas county, and Roseburg is the base o f supplies.

D R I L L S A R E R E S U M E D .

ever the flag was carried by be patriotic enough to stand when the “ Star Spangled Banner” was sung or played; He would be patriotic enough to know more than one verse o f ‘ My Country ’Tis o f Thee;” He would be patriotic enough to distinguish between partyism and patriotism. Stephen De- cauter once said, “ My country-right or wrong.” I think that Jesus Christ would have fully endorsed Carl Schurz’ revised version o f this saying, “ My country right or wrong, when right to be kept right, and when wrong to be set right.”

I f Jesus lived in Cottage Grove He would be brotherly. Every one who goes to Paris always takes good care to see the tomb o f the great Napoleon. This is situated in the building attach- | ed to the church o f St. Hsiuis, common- I ly called the Dome. His ashes rest in j a massive sarcophagus in a crypt some j feet below the level o f the floor, and immediately behind is a lifelike figure ; o f the Christ on the cross. So real is ; this that one can almost believe the breast o f the Savior to heave and the

He would : efforts in this direction.

Much Lumber on Hand.The Chambers Lumber Company,

1 whose mills are at Dorena, has about I 2,500,000 feet o f lumber on hand, and is sawing about 40,(XX) feet per day.

j The company had been waiting for an advance in prices, and is well satisfied with the outcome as well as the out­look.

Mrs. Wheeler Honored.The Woman’s Christian Temperance

Union o f Oregon, at the annual ses­sion held at Hood River last week, elected Mrs. Eva C. Wheeler, o f this city, secretary, a most fitting tribute to the service she has rendered inthe past. __ _ _____ _

Seek to Recover.An action has been instituted in the

circuit court by the C. A. Bohrnstedt Company o f Creswell against F. and R. Easly to recover $375, alleged to have been paid for a team o f horses, which, according to the plaintiff, were not delivered.

Captain Johnson’s Soldiers Begin to Perform Regular Work.

Company E, Fourth Infantry o f the Oregon National Guards, of which A t­torney J. C. Johnson is captain, re­sumed drills on Tuesday night, preceed- ed by a school for commissioned offi­cers on Monday evening, and the work w ill continue during the fall and winter months. The target season will close the last day o f the present month. Cottage Grove may well boast o f its sharpshooters, for o f the twenty-two organizations in the state Company E carried off the trophy offered for target work at the last encampment. This team of five is com|>osed o f (.'apt. Johnson, Second Lieutenant H. H. Petrie, Sargeants J. H. Potts, F. H. Snodgrass and Butte Mooney. During the past target season, several o f the members have done some excellent work in this direction, but to the nam­ed fall the honors.

Considerable interest is manifested in the forthcoming drills, it being the desire o f Capt. Johnson, as well as of its members, to place the Cottage Grove Company in the highest jxissihle state o f proficiency.

It's Good Enough to Stick By.

Mr. Frank Jordan returned on Sat­urday from an extended visit to East­ern Washington. While he will go to that section and till the soil, he advises people who have agricultural or timber lands in the vicinity o f Cottage GroveWill Build in the Spring.

lips to move as i f to speak. Napoleon J J. M. Comer has sold residence prop- to hang onto them. The timber in and~Christ ! What a contrast. The ,?rty on Wall street to A. T. Crandall, Eastern Oregon, he says, is rapidly mighty warrior is throneless, sepulchre-1 who w j|| build thereon in the spring. • being depleted.

Famous Correspondent V sits LaneCounty and Writes C o n ce rn in g ItsWonderful Timber R esou rces -Set­tlors for Cut-over Land s

William E. Curtis, thi world-famous correspondent o f the Chirago-Herald, recently visited Lane county, and in speaking o f its lumber interests has the following to say :

“ The Booth-Kelly Lumber Company, o f which Mr. Dixon is manager, owns about 12(Xl square miles, or approx­imately thirty-four billion feet, of Douglas fir ii^ this neighborhood, the heaviest timber that grew. The com­pany is composed o f Michigan, Oregon and California men. It has four i big sawmills and employ s about 12(Ml men, one-half o f whom are in the mills anil the rest in the woods. It is said to ship more lumber to the East by rail than any other company on the coast, and its output is enormous. Mr. Dixon tells me the policy o f the company is ' to follow the lines of the conservation movement as proposed by Gifford Pinchot, because they consider it wise and prudent not only to the country at large, but to their personal interests. Mr. Dixon says that all of the large timber interests in Oregon have the same disposition, and that there is a perfect understanding and co-operation between the forestry service and the lumbermen.

“ The lumber companies of Oregon accept the forest reserve policy o f the administration absolutely,” said Mr. Dixon. "The land grabbers are the only ones who oppose it. The sheep men formerly resisted, but since they have come to understand what the forest service means they have changed their attitude They <my they

! getting a fail deal, ;c d udmi it .I ost o f gras it jj on p •,or:i' . ml i.. , .ci t i • ely ••• - I hen I.i - ■ ■ . ■C'l-opec'it i *i Ik c, • i!(bd the tumour eompani". m fire ] lection, the lumber tien v ■ lifting \ selection in re and nil re, and .u_ tui. ing better care o f the new growth. “ No planting is being done in the state so far as I know, but young trees are protected and given a chance to grow. The future o f Oregon is to manufacture timber products, and everything that promotes*t hat industry will increase the prosperity o f the peo­ple. We want furniture factories and other establishments to utilize the lumber; we want settlers to take up the cleared lands that are ready for re-forestation and for fruit orchards. Stump lands can be bought all the way from $10 to $30 per acre, and there are no better fruit lands in the world. The greatest need is immigrants, and additional transportation facilities.”

Mav Buv Electric Plant.The Willamette Valley Electric Com

pany may purchase the electric plant at Junction City, Negotiations are pending.

C O MI NG A T T R A C T I O N S .Lena Rivers Company at Armory Soon.

Gov. LaFollette Nov. 2.The theatre season will open in Cot­

tage Grove on Monday October IK, when the Lena Rivers Company will appear at the Armory. This company is highly spoken o f by the press o f the country, and will doubtless be favored with a large audience upon its appear­ance in this city. This attraction will be followed on the 28th by the Mar­garet lies company, one o f the best on the road.

“ Lena Rivers, unlike most drama­tizations which usually use the title of the Ivjok only, tells the story from 1 leginning to end retaining ail the in­teresting characters. The play is full o f honest fun. This is the first time “ lama Rivers” has been played in Cottage Grove. Those who think grandmothers arc a thing o f the past should go to see "lam a Rivers.” They will see the real article, just the sort o f Granny we all wish we had. Few novels have been more widely read than “ Lena Rivers.” It pleases old and young because it tells the old, old story. The play from this liook is a delightful, dainty affair, full of tear- and smiles.

Robert Marioi La Follette o f Wis­consin, will appear in Cottage Grove on Nov. 2, bis lecture being the first numlier o f the local lyreum course. Governor La Folktte is h forceful or­ator, and an intelligent student o f civic reform and political purity. The spon- taneous ovations tendered him where ever he goes arc not bestowed upon men o f unpopularity, nor u|*»n those who are not deep thinkers and ora-

torieally powerful. That lie will have a largo audience in Cottage Grove goes without saying.

The Chorus club of the Royal school is rehearsing the cantata "K in g Saul,” which it will present in this city in the not very distant future.

Rancher Moves to Town.R. Hulls, who has lived near Lorane

for a number o f years past, has rented his ranch to his son, Elmer Hull, and on Monday moved to town to live in comparative ease. Mr. Hull has bought one ar . a half acres o f land near the north corporation limits from J. C. Baker for $S(KI, and will make this bis home. “ Dick” Walker and family o f Latham have moved to the Hull ranch where he is employed.

S P E C I A L E L E C T I O N C A L L E D .Question o f Bonding for Water Sys­

tem Goes to Voters.Wednesday next the qualified electors

o f Cottage Grove will be called u|»on to vote upon the question o f issuing municipal bonds in a sum not to exceed $l(M),fiiH) for tile* purpose o f construct­ing an adequate water system, and every citizen should inform himself on the subject before casting his ballot. It is the purpose o f the common coun­cil to issue twenty-five-year bonds, to bear interest at the rate o f 5 per cent per annum, for the construction o f a pipe line from Layng creek, about twenty miles distant, to connect with the present municipal system. A fort­night since The Sentinel published an estimate of the cost, the figures ag­gregating $70,(XX), and this sum Mayor Job thinks will be sufficient to complete the proposed work.

The city of Cottage Grove has long demanded this improvement, and in­asmuch as the citizenship generally has championed the undertaking, there is every prospect that the election on Wednesday will favor the bond issue by an overwelming majority.

M ERCHANTS TO FEAST.

Banquet Will be Held Within the En­suing Fortnight.

\ di idolly jntci to: meeting wasthat of tl j Morel ,nt Protective-. ■ iatinii I ! I ii iin ■ internal Club

-a-.d.ir Tuesday eight nit was laok- de up in on

i a;in Among tl things discussed ■ a; tie proposed I no -t to be ten- 1 cd members ami fi al merchants outside o f the organization a fortnight hence. An invitation will be extended to the officers of the Eugene associa­tion. A committee composed o f Messrs. Veatch, Wheeler and Tyson, was ap­pointed to make arrangements for the feed, which will undoubtedly prove one of the most pleasant as well as profit­able entertainments o f this character ever belli in Cottage Grove.

Charged With Wrongdoing..O. H. Steiple, who, with his wife,

owns the famous IfiOfi-acre Steiple ranch near Eugene, was arrested at Port­land on Saturday and thrown into the county jail, charged with obtaining money under false pretenses. Specifical­ly Steiple is charged with cashing checks on hanks in which he is alleged to have no funds. Steiple averred he and his w ife had an unincumbered in­terest of between $30,)H)0 and $40,01X1 in file ranch, and admitted having drawn the checks in question, dclaring that he had supposed lie had sufficient funds to covera ll drafts. His bank­book, too, shows that several limes before he has overdrawn amounts lar­ger than he is now charged with obtain­ing.

Lands Are Productive.If. Norcross, who lives a few miles

north o f Medford, has sold twelve acres o f 11-year orchard to eastern investors for $lti,)XX). Mr. Norcross now holds both first and second place in high prices paid for orchard land in that valley. Last spring he obtained $lx,- I X X ) for twelve acres, that being the highest price ever paid for Rogue river orchard hind.

Lands found in the neighborhood of Cottage Grove may be made to pro­duce the same results as those just sold by Mr. Norcross, in which case they will have equal market value.

Bicycle Thief Caught,On Saturday last Sheriff Bown

came to Cottage Grove and arrested one Lynwood, who is charged with having stolen h bicycle belonging to Kdw. Small of Eugene. Upon being arraigned the prisoner waived exam­ination, and was tx>und over to the circuit court. Unable to secure Itonds- men, Lynwood now languishes in jail.

Landlord Westbrook o f Hotel Oregon spent Monday in Portland.

Building Railroad Bridges.The Oregon & Southeastern company

is building a substantial new bridge aero--, the Row river, at the |*>int where the serious accident occurred some months ago. A new bridge is also being constructed across Moshy creek.

NUMBF.R 3

SHOW LARGE INCREASECottage Grove Schools Forging

Rapidly Forwar d.

T O T A L E N R O L L M E N T O V E R 400

Additional Accommodations Will Haveto be Provided in the Near Future IfAttendance Continues to Increase.General School Notes.

I f the intelligence o f a community is l judged by its educational advantages,I Cottage Grove need not fear the test. We justly feel proud o f our public

1 schools. With two more teachers add­ed to tiie teaching force, and the large increase in the attendance upon the High sehool, the most pessimistic should take courage at the bright out­look. The total enrollment at the close of the first month was 457, against 403 last year at "the same time, showing a gain o f 54. The enrollment in the High school last year at the end o f the first month was 52, and for this year 85, making an increase o f 33, or over *>3 per cent. The enrollment in all grades for the month ending October 8 fo llows:

High school building High school 85, seventh grade 32, fifth grade 512, third grade 34, second grade 37, first grade 3(5.

West side building Eighth grade 34, sixth grade 18, fifth grade 25, fourth grade 42, second and third grades 35, first grade 17.

The Sentinel learns from Super­intendent E. K. Barnes, besides the above information, that instead of there being 57 tardy marks, as was the case during the first month in 1908, there were only 25 during the past month. Four rooms did not have a single tardy for this period, v iz : Miss Wilson's,Miss l ’urvanee’s, Miss WJiite’s and Miss Inlow's. The teachers are making an earnest effort to reduce the tardiness to a minimum. Parents can do much in this matter by planning to have their children ready to attend school each day. The most successful school is thi‘ one where the parents are interested in the welfare o f their children. This mAtter o f parental action lias a vital influence upon the, school. Parents who fail to impress upon tile minds o f their children the proper res­pect for sehool authority are criminally guilty. Very often the foundation o f a vicious and sinful life is formed at an early age and, alas, too frequently by not teaching the child to observe obedience to constituted authority.

A community should take pride in everything that has a tendency to elevate its citizens. There is no better way o f showing this pride than by helping the schools to attain their highest possible development. The child should he taught that the rights o f others should he respected, that a certain amount o f self restraint is in­cumbent upon him and that selfishness has no part in the making o f a true and genuine character.

A new feature o f the public school this year, and one meriting praise, is tiie Normal course, or review work given to common branches by the Senior class. This is designed to assist the graduates in lifting themselves to pass the county examinations, as well as the better to prepare those who desire to teach, to instruct in the school room.

The crowded condition o f some o f the rooms will, o f necessity, call for more school accommodations in the near future. l!.y the time Cottage Grove becomes the county seat o f Nesmith county a new school building will he needed on the East side. The erection o f new houses, the coming in o f new families, all call for increased facilities along educational lines.

AMONG TH E SCHOOLS.The student laxly will publish The

| Superlative again this school year, and j the following officers have been eleet- 1 eel: Editor-in-chief, Mable Rosenburg; assistant editor,Mahlc Veatch; business manager, Elmer Spencer ; second assis­tant manager, Edgar K ing, subscrip­tion agent, Albert Woodard; exchange editor, Benny K in g ; social editor, A llie Phillips; local and personal editor, Ernest Anderson ; senior class reporter. Myrtle Kem; junior class reporter, Nellie Ellis; sophomor glass reporter, Blanch Veatch; freshman class repor­ter, Harry Kime; eighth grade report er. Flora Phillips.

Dr. Nave was a welcome visitor at the High school last Monday morning. His talk to the pupils was inspiring.

Miss Wixxl, o f the high school, gave a very interesting re|x>rt o f her visit to the Yellowstone park. The as­sembly talks by the teachers and others are instructive and entertaining.

From proceeils o f an entertainment given last year by Mrs. W. A. Hemen- way, a valuable set o f “ L ittle Master­pieces of Literature” 4 volumes was

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